Making bacon?

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This smoke generator is simply fantastic. It reminds me of my attempts to make a power-assisted bong back in 1975.
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[TheDoctor]

I can never get the rizlas round the bacon.

It's getting it lit that's the problem IME.

 

[Broadside]

[QUOTE 2996707, member: 259"]Has anyone cured their own? I quite fancy having a go.[/QUOTE]

We cured a couple of joints off one of our pigs last autumn. We followed the method in Hugh F- W's book and while it did cure and you could eat it raw it just didn't taste right, very much preserved pork rather than bacon like. We binned it all as a result.

If I did it again I would buy some cheap supermarket meat to experiment with before using any decent stuff, there's a bit more to it than you might think.